(I also write a blog where I rant about issues related to teaching, review the conferences I attend, talk about teaching business and esp english plus provide advice for using technology in the classroom + lesson tips, that's at http://kalinago.blogspot.com.

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Probably for the same reasons that textbooks avoid this like the plague. But if you, like me, live in a country where my native language isn't spoken then you'll know exactly how hard it is to express the things that just piss you off.

But sometimes we have to. And sometimes your students need to talk about what's going wrong in their projects and they lack the vocabulary to express their frustration.

Here's a posting on using storytelling to teach this lexis, in particular, the expressions and idioms used to talk about displeasure...